...Emma Watson vs. Malala Yousafzai I am going to compare two very important speeches, in my opinion. Emma Watson’s was on the HeForShe Campaign and Malala Yousafzai’s promoting education for girls. Bothe speeches were delivered at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Emma Watson, at the age of 24, launched a campaign called “HeForShe” on September 20, 2014. She is the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and she was cohosting this event when she gave the speech. She is a famous British actress and has been advocating for gender equality. Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for going to school, and on July 12, 2013, at the age of 16, she delivered a speech promoting education for girls. She has become a champion for the rights of children everywhere to be educated. Emma Watson began her speech by addressing “Your Excellences, UN Secretary General, President of the General Assembly, Executive Director of UN Women, and distinguished guests.” (Normaljean2, 2014) As for Malala she began her speech, not only this one but every other one she did, “In the name of God, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful. Honorable UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Respected President General Assembly Vuk Jeremic, Honorable UN envoy for Global education Mr. Gordon Brown, Respected elders and my dear brothers and sisters.” (A World at School, 2014) Both were very respectful. I believe that the first challenge a speaker faces is to establish their credibility to speak...
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...Malala Yousafzai is a women's activist, born in Mingora, Pakistan. She grew up during the time that the Taliban took over her home country. This shaped her into the girl she is today, who fights for women's rights in Pakistan. Malala has always loved learning ever since she was a little girl. She explains in the beginning of her book,I Am Malala how since her dad owned schools, she would go into classrooms and act like she is teaching. She loved this feeling she said. She loved learning and strived to be the number one at her school. Throughout her process of telling this story , Malala is able to append with readers in an emotional captivating way because her use of credibility and also her ability to state logistical facts through the book to build her argument that we...
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...Malala Yousafzai is the youngest-ever Nobel peace prize winner and not only has she recovered from dreadful injuries after being shot by the Taliban, but has gone on to become a champion for the rights of women everywhere to be educated. Yousafzai’s use of rhetoric in her speech is amazing for her age as she always stays composed and speaks very clearly and forcefully. Malala is able to get the audience to pay attention to her from the beginning. Malala uses rhetorical strategies to convey her message, not as a victim of violence but as a champion against it. Throughout the novel, Malala uses descriptive language and anecdotes about her life, which contribute to the emotion that her writing elicits within the reader. Malala uses pathos by throwing attention off herself by saying she is just one out of many. "One girl among many" (Yousafzai,189). She speaks not for herself but for all the women who were illiterate because they were not educated. “It is not at all uncommon for women in my country to be illiterate, but to see my mother struggle to read the prices in the bazaar was an unspoken sadness for both of us” (Yousafzai, 23). The quote from the novel I Am Malala is an example of pathos because she uses her uneducated...
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...Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for girls' education and the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in Swat Valley (her hometown), where the Talibans had tried to ban girls from attending school. Yousafzai's voice has since grown into an international movement. Malala attended a school her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, founded. On September 2008, Malala gave out a speech, after the Talibans attacked the girls' school in Swat. The title of her talk is "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education". In early 2009, Yousafzai wrote blogs for BBC about her living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. On October 9, 2012, on her way home from school, a man boarded the bus Malala was riding in and demanded to know which girl was Malala. When her friends looked toward Malala, her identity was given away. The gunman fired at her, hitting Malala in the left side of her head and the bullet then traveled down her neck. Two other girls were also injured in the...
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...All people face moments that demand courage, but deciding what that courage will look like can be difficult. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch uses an important moment in his son’s life to offer advice about what it really means to be courageous. Though this book tells a fictional story based on a time period more than 80 years in the past, Atticus’s explanation of courage is still relevant. This is especially true when looking at the story of Malala Yousafzai in Biography.com article “Women Leaders: Malala Yousafzai.” Malala Yousafzai exemplifies all parts of Atticus Finch’s definition of courage. Atticus Finch helps his young son Jem understand courage by first explaining what it is not and then what it is. At the...
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...Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and also the youngest person to have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize at just seventeen years old. She was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora Pakistan. A few years later, the once peaceful country started to change as the Taliban strengthened their control. The Taliban originated in the early 1990’s in northern Pakistan after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The Taliban’s goal to the Pashtun people was to restore peace and security and enforce their own strict Islamic law once in power. In both Pakistan and Afghanistan, they performed acts of Islamic punishments consisting of public executions, convicted murderes and amputations of those found guilty of theft. By 1998,...
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...Century World History November 19, 2014 Malala In 2004 the Taliban should up in Pakistan, but there was coexistence between them and the citizens. it was not until 2007 the Taliban shoed their true colors. They Taliban began to shoot up schools. Many people where killed during this act of terrorism. During January of 2009 the Taliban had been slaughtering one to two people every night. It was this time Malala Yousafzai, along with many other woman and children saw clearly of the actions that the Taliban made. The time of extreme darkness and cruelty is was shed light into the mind of Malala Yousafzai. In 2012, Malala was out on a walk with her father when suddenly a lady came up to them, exclaiming that if you look up Malala Yousafzai’s name on Google, you can see a treat held by the Taliban against her. She being the modest person that she is was not scared for her life, but more for her father’s life. Keep in mind, she is 14 years old at this time and she already is a treat to the Taliban. Such a small individual can change so much. Malala Yousafzai was a young woman when she stood up for educational freedom. In this stand of oppressing the oppression lead to father horrific events. She sought that education was power and was the primary reason why the Taliban forbid education to woman in Pakistan. This all lead to the optimism of Malala Yousafzai that the situation there in Saud. Her with woman followers began to protest and speech out of their situation. Her goal at that...
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...Achilles, is known for being well-respected and feared by his enemies. He leads his men into action with much ferocity and bravery. Outside of literature, Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani, received the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts on promoting education for women in the Middle East. She became a target by the Taliban because she was a role model for women controlled by the Taliban which they did not like. In Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad, the protagonist Achilles most closely fits the canon of “a hero”, as portrayed by Malala in her speech as a person who puts others before themselves, because they both risked their lives for the sake of another and they both were compassionate even towards their enemies....
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...of Pakistan. Her name is Malala Yousafzai, and she was 17 when she accepted the prestigious award. She is a human rights advocate centered on children’s education and women’s rights. Though she has been an advocate since she was a young child, she has become the face of an international movement. Malala’s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, ran the school in her valley. When the local Taliban began banning girls from attending school, he spoke out against them. When she was twelve years old, inspired by her father’s advocacy, Malala began writing a blog about living under Taliban control and her ideas about children’s, specifically girl’s, rights to education. The blog was published by the BBC (British Broadcast Company) under a pseudonym. Her name was released when a New York Times journalist, Adam Ellick, made a documentary about her life and the military of Pakistan intervening in her region...
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...Caterra Heard-Tate T.L. Hanna High School 8 April 2016 Integrity “I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up” (Yousafzai). Integrity is defined as the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. I believe that someone who can be described as having all of these qualities is Malala Yousafzai. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education. Her work has been amazing and her entire story of determination and courage is extraordinary. She started when she attended a school that her father had founded. After the Taliban began attacking schools, Malala gave a speech in, Pakistan, in September 2008. This speech was titled, "How dare the...
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...When the world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful, ” Malala Yousafzai once said. Malala Yousafzai, a young girl, stood up for women's right for education in Pakistan were women do not have the rights to go to school. Malala was so passionate about gaining the rights for women's education that she was shot in the back of the head by the Taliban and almost died standing up for women. Malala took this action because as she said, “The world is silent” and she is that one voice that became powerful. Malala is so passionate, confident, and brave which allows her to be an influential leader in world history. Malala’s passion helps her throughout her life to become an influential leader. Malala was the voice of 60 million girls who could not...
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...Summary of the person: Malala Yousaszai was born on July 12th 1997 in Mingora Pakistan. Malala parents are Tor Pekai Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai and her two younger brothers Khushal Yousafzai and Atal Yousafzai. Malala attended Khushal public school in 2012 and went to high school at Edgbaston high school. When the Islamic fundamentalist political movement took over the swat valley where malala lived, they banned every girl from attending school. But Malala stood up to what she believes in and refused to be silent about her rights to have an education. Sadly her actions were soon dealt with when she was shot in the head on her way home from school. They believed Malala wasn’t going to survive with her injury, but by miracle she made a full recovery. After that fatal incident, Malala became an activist for females to have rights to an education, and published many books explaining her rights to have an education, women’s rights and the...
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...little or no rights at all. Some of these countries include Afghanistan, Iraq, Nepal, Sudan and Pakistan. Consequently, women who reside in these countries run the risk of being punished or even killed, if they were to stand up for their rights. A wise author once said “Great leaders are often defined not by their beliefs, but by how they react when those beliefs are tested to the limit.” Despite the fact that she lived in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai demonstrated her bravery by fearlessly petitioning for women’s rights and girl’s education. Yousafzai is a sixteen year old girl who was shot by the Taliban for being an advocate for girl’s education. Yousafzai survived the shooting and continues to be an activist for Women’s and children’s rights. As a result of her bravery she was invited to speak at the United Nations. In her speech, Yousafzai expressed her desire for every child to have a right to an education. She especially focused on women’s rights and girl’s education since they are suffering the most. Although one may argue that Yousafzai relied heavily on her use of...
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...Can you imagine getting shot in the head because of something you strongly believed in? Well, that is just what happened to this lady. Her name is Malala Yousafzai and she was able to survive a bullet to the head. Malala was born on July 12th, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. She attended the school her father founded called Khushal Public School. She and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai both of them shared a love for education. At this time in Malala’s town, the Taliban were trying to take control of her area. The Taliban began to try to restrict education and prevent girls from attending school. In 2009, BBC was looking for someone to tell what life was like living under the Taliban’s threats. Malala’s father actually recommended her and she began to write what her life was like. To hide her identity she went by the name Gul Makai but she was revealed later that year by...
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...My Journal Entry - The Journey of a Social Movement (Malala Yousafzai) Malala’s journey of her social movement is not only significant to me, but also to millions of other people and more specifically, to females all over the world. The way she composes herself and her impactful speeches are ingenious. She has taught me many significant values of principals such as the right of education and speech. Anyways, I think I got the most inspired by her when she won the Nobel Peace Prize and when she survived an attempted assassination. Anyone who wins the Nobel Peace Prize must have done something that everybody, no matter the race, gender, and ethnicity, can stand and/or cheer for. The fact that Malala won the prize when she was only seventeen, makes it all more inspiring, as I am seventeen myself, yet one can easily compare our lives and...
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